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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED VALKER, OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONF- IIALF TOFREDERICK ADAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

DRILL JAEf-EEAMER.

SPECPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,347, dated September1li 1888.

Application filed February i858.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, ALFRED WALKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Luis Obispo, in the county of San Luis Obispo and Stateof California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in DrillJar-Reamers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines forboring wells.

The object of my invention is to devise a simple and effective machinewhich will rearn out the hole which is below the tubing of a well, so asto allow the tubing to slip down freely, and which will not cut into thetubing while being passed through. This I accomplish by means of thedevice described herein, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my in vention with portionsthereot' broken away to contract the view. Fig. 2 is a verticalmidsection on line Z Z, Fig. t5, leaving the rea1n ing dog intact,however, to show one of the lips J. This view illustrates the positionof the reamingdog while the tool is passing through the tubing. Fig. 3is a similar section showing the reamer in operation below the pipe.Fig. 4. is a rear view of Fig. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line X X,Fig. 2.

Figli is a cross-section on line Y Y, Fig. 2. Fig. 7 isacross-section ofFig. 3 on line XV XV.

A is the tubing of the well.

3 is the drill stock. C is the jar. y D is the reaming-dog mounted. ouan axle,

E, within a slot, F, in the drillstock. A spring, G, presses against theinner side ot' the dog at the lower end thereof to force the lower endof the dog out from the face ot' the stock, so that when the dog is notpressed into the slot it will be held in the position shown in Fig. 3,whereby the cutting edge H of the rearner is thrown beyond the line cutby the drill. The upper face, I, of the dog is dat; and when the lowerend of the dog is thrown out by the spring, as shown in Fig. 3, theupper face, I, is at right angles with the drill-stock. The end of thejar strikes upon the face I squarely and drives the drill and dogdownward.

It will be observed that when the end of the jar rests upon the upperface, I, ot the dog it will prevent the dog from being forced back intothe slot. This appears clearly in Fig. 2.

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rWhen the dog is pressed back into the slot, the upper face of the dogwill be at an angle with the face of the end of thejar, and when thejarstrikes thereon the weight of the jar will force the dog to assume theposition shown in Fig. 3-that is to say, the cutting 6o edge II of thedog will be thrown out, so as to cut the walls ot' the hole.

In order to prevent the cutting-edge of the dog from striking into thepipe while passing down therethrough, I providelips J J, which projectoutward from the sides of the dog. These lips are mountedon the dogbetween the cutting-edge thereof and the point at which the axle passesthrough the dog, so that they will not move through so large an arc asthe 7o cutting edge of the dog. It will be seen that when the dog ispressed back into the position shown in Fig. 2 the lips J J will projectfarther from the face of the drill than does the cutting-edge ofthe dog.\Vhen the dog has passed below thc end of the tubing, the spring willforce the cutting-edge out, so that it will project beyond the plane inwhich the lips J J move, thus striking into and cutting the wall of thehole, as shown in Figs. 8o 3 and 7.

I provide a passageway, L, to drain the slot F and prevent it frombecoming filled with dbris which might prevent the dog from being forcedback when itis drawn out through S5 the tubing.

Wlhen the drill is drawn upto remove it from the well, the lips Jv Jwill strike upon the tube and be thereby thrust back, thus throwing thedog back to allow the drill to 9o pass through the tubing.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination ot thejar, the stock ot' the drill, the dog D,provided with the cutting-edge H, and pivoted to the stock of the drill,the axle E, and the spring G.

2. In a drillsubstantally such as described, the pivoted rearning-dog D,provided with the cutting-edge H and the lips J J.

3. The combination of the jar, the stock of the drill, the dog D,provided with the cut` ting-edge H and the lips J J, and pivoted to thestock, the axle E, and spring G.

ALFRED WALKER.

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Witnesses:

Jas. R. TowNsEND, A. C. CONNEE.

